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Chargement... To the Finland Station (1940)par Edmund Wilson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Firmato por Antonio. 87 Um estudo sobre os homens que fizeram a História. Ou um estudo sobre os homens que escreveram a História. Ou ambos. Como disse Gore Vidal, o gênio especial de Wilson estava em estabelecer mais conexões entre vários campos do conhecimento do que qualquer outro crítico do seu tempo. Somente um homem com a estatura intelectual de Wilson seria capaz de empreender a construção de uma obra da abrangência de Rumo à Estação Finlândia, um livro impossível de ser enquadrado em uma só categoria, capaz de agradar tanto a um especialista quanto a um não-iniciado. Enquanto amplia e problematiza o estudo da revolução soviética, Wilson desenvolve, como pano de fundo, uma trama em que personagens históricas, suas vidas, suas ideias e suas práticas compõem um todo complexo e contraditório, dinâmico e envolvente. We almost always read fiction in what I call our 'uptown' reading group, but this time we tackled [To the Finland Station]. Very interesting discussion followed, to my surprise and pleasure. Edmund Wilson writes marvelously clear prose, even if it's in an older, more subordinate-clause style. While his section on Lenin is too much a hagiography (as he himself admitted later), the history of socialist and communist origins and philosophy in Europe really filled a hole in my education, and his concentration on the history and personalities of Marx and Engels made them very vivid to me. If you haven't read it, take a look, and forgive the first chapter or so on the French philosophers (it is rather deadly). Highly recommended, a classic. This should be read by every intelligent reader. This book has special resonance today (in late 2017); economic considerations are the fundament of socialism, an attempt to imagine and institute a political system which could lessen the plight of the poor, of low-wage workers and those in unnecessarily onerous or dangerous jobs, as against economies operating in effect to satisfy the greed of the wealthy who benefit from those people and circumstances and enjoy political systems which evolved to sustain or increase the obvious inequities of wealth. At issue is always how to institute a true socialist state in place of another. No nation has. Wilson offers thoughtful and closely reasoned criticism of the historical proponents of socialism, identifying not only their insight but also their incorrect assumptions and unsound reasoning, of which there is enough. He outlines a few former attempts at the setting up of Utopian communities, among dozens of which in the U.S. are listed in Wikipedia. The world-wide concentration of wealth today is an obscenity ultimately warping nearly every human and civil standard, and entraining politics (and arguably media) within a corrupt golden feedback loop which might finally result in even an advanced country having hands-down the most ignorant and dangerous elected leaders in its history, in further increasing the concentration of wealth by tax laws and other means even when unpopular, and in stifling meaningful institutional oversight and balance, abetted perhaps by methodical media misdirection and lack of candor in support of short-sighted policies further enriching the wealthy few at the expense of the many economically insecure. That is a disheartening prospect even to a lifelong conservative concerned deeply both with this possibility and with unpredictable reactions to it (call it dialectic), from which one hopes revolutionary history is not to be repeated with its usual blood and guts. An alert and informed public would help, where voting is practiced. Reading this book is recommended. It is very well written and enjoyable to read.
The originality of To the Finland Station lies not in its direct narrative or in its factuality but in its study of the writing and acting of history. The task Wilson sets himself is to follow the devious yet constantly renewed threads in the texture of conspiracy. His people and their actions are born when their minds make their act of discovery... When Wilson moves on to Renan, Taine, France and, briefly, to the Symbolists in order to show the ossification of the once Romantic impulse, the biographical detail links their thinking to their lives. And biography plays a major part as his grand examination of Babeuf, Marx, Engels, Bakunin, Lassalle, Lenin and Trotsky expands. It is amusingly typical of Wilson that he should turn to one of Meredith’s novels for an oblique glance at Lassalle... To the Finland Station is perhaps the only book on the grand scale to come out of the Thirties - in either England or America. It contains to a novel degree the human history of an argument, from its roots to its innumerable branches, domestic and emotional... It is because it never loses sight of the pain gnawing at the heart of the human conscience that Wilson’s discursive record, untouched by rhetoric, achieves pages one can only call noble. Appartient à la série éditorialeAnchor Books (6) A inspiré
One of the great works of modern historical writing, the classic account of the ideas, people, and politics that led to the Bolshevik Revolution Edmund Wilson's "To the Finland Station "is intellectual history on a grand scale, full of romance, idealism, intrigue, and conspiracy, that traces the revolutionary ideas that shaped the modern world from the French Revolution up through Lenin's arrival at Finland Station in St. Petersburg in 1917. Fueled by Wilson's own passionate engagement with the ideas and politics at play, it is a lively and vivid, sweeping account of a singular idea--that it is possible to construct a society based on justice, equality, and freedom--gaining the power to change history. Vico, Michelet, Bakunin, and especially Marx--along with scores of other anarchists, socialists, nihilists, utopians, and more--all come to life in these pages. And in Wilson's telling, their stories and their ideas remain as alive, as provocative, as relevant now as they were in their own time. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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